Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Llama 2-7B

Claude 3 Sonnet and Llama 2-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Llama 2-7B Meta

29.1

Rank #317 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 2-7B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Llama 2-7B leads 30.7 to 10.7.
  • Llama 2-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Sonnet and Llama 2-7B specifications
Claude 3 SonnetLlama 2-7B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index29.029.1
Released2024-02-292023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3029

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Coding12231002
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971009
Epoch Capabilities Index120.799.06
WinoGrande75.1%69.2%
Chess Puzzles—0%
DTBench53.6%—
BIG-Bench Hard—39.2%
HellaSwag—77.2%
LAMBADA—73.3%
PIQA—78.8%

Math Llama 2-7B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Math12131042
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
MATH Level 518.2%—
GSM8K—16.7%

Knowledge Llama 2-7B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Expert11731036
MMLU75.9%45.8%
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—45.9%
BoolQ—77.9%
OpenBookQA—58.6%
TriviaQA—73.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Llama 2-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Vision984—
ScienceQA—43.1%

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Non-English1205973
LMArena Chinese1189973
LMArena French1229970
LMArena German1204978
LMArena Russian1227995
LMArena Spanish12041007
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Instruction Following11991006

Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Longer Query1211999

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Text12181053
LMArena Creative Writing11861033
LMArena Multi-Turn12271029

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Llama 2-7B?

Claude 3 Sonnet and Llama 2-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Llama 2-7B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (29.6 vs 29.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Llama 2-7B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-7B has 29.

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